Bonny Eagle Edges Windham 51-41

Middle School Basketball - Seventh Grade Boys

December 8, 2008

By Coach Manzo

 

Windham jumped out to an early lead before Bonny Eagle stormed back to claim a 51-41 victory.

 

For the first time all year, we were able to get out to a fast start and put some points on the board and have a nice lead heading into the second quarter.  Nobody on Bonny Eagle could stop John Clark.  He was getting in good position and really came up huge for us in that quarter. 

 

In the second quarter, we had a very difficult time containing Dustin Cole (#14).  He got where he wanted to on offense and caused a lot of turnovers on defense.  We simply could not stay in front of him on defense and the help was getting there far too late.  We hung around and were able to keep it close heading into halftime.

 

In the second half, we simply had a hard time putting the ball into the hoop.  It wasn’t that we weren’t getting the shots; it is just that they were not falling for us yesterday.  I felt we were aggressive enough on offense, as evident by the 25 free throw attempts we took.  However, we were only able to make eight of them which really hurt us.  We made some careless errors on defense and committed too many fouls.  When Bonny Eagle got to the free throw line, they were doing a much better job converting than we were. 

 

There is no doubt in my mind we will be better prepared next time we face them and hopefully the game will end in our favor.